Tag: radiation chemistry
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Nutrients Penetrate Europa’s Ice Shell: New Model Reveals Pathway
New Pathways to an Ocean: The Core Idea A collaborative effort by geophysicists from Washington State University and Virginia Tech offers a plausible mechanism for how essential nutrients could travel from Europa’s irradiated exterior into its hidden subsurface ocean. The research, rooted in geophysics and planetary science, challenges the long-held assumption that the ice shell…
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Space Radiation May Create Some Organic Molecules Found in Enceladus Plumes
New insight into Enceladus’s chemistry Scientists are reconsidering how organic molecules detected in plumes erupting from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus should be interpreted. A recent study proposes that some compounds previously thought to come from a subsurface ocean could instead be produced by natural radiation near the moon’s surface. While this doesn’t rule out a…